No Country for Old Men explores themes of violence, good versus evil, and injustice through a fatalistic, nihilistic worldview. The film conceives of a universe ruled by blind luck, fundamentally indifferent to human suffering and moral comeuppance. Anton Chigurh is particularly illustrative of this worldview, often reducing the fate of other characters to a coin toss. This sense of inevitability governs his twisted moral code, of which he is also a prisoner.
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